OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, JAN 27, 2001 (VIS) - The Holy Father appointed:

- Fr. Louis Marie Ling Mangkhanekhoun, vicar delegate of the apostolic vicariate of Vientiane, as apostolic vicar of Paske (area 45,000, population 910,000, Catholics 11,362, priests 2, religious 19), Laos. The bishop-elect was born in Bonha-Louang, Laos, in 1944, and ordained a priest in 1972. He succeeds Bishop Thomas Khamphan, whose resignation from the pastoral care of the same apostolic vicariate the Holy Father accepted, upon having reached the age limit.

- The following as consultors to the Pontifical Council for Social Communications: Bishops Jan Chrapek of Radom, Poland, Joseph Anthony Galante, coadjutor of Dallas, U.S.A. and Jean-Michel di Falco, auxiliary of Paris, France; Fathers Robert Astorino, M.M., executive director of Catholic press agency "UCA News," Bangkok, Thailand, Joseph Befe Ateba, general secretary of CEPACS, the communications office of the "Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar," Franco Lever, S.D.B., dean of the Faculty of Social Communications of the Pontifical Salesian University, Rome, Dermod McCarthy, director of religious television programming for Irish Radio and Television, Dublin, Robert A. White, S.J., director of the Interdisciplinary Center for Social Communications of the Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome; Deacon William Kokesch, director of the Communications Office of the Canadian Bishops' Conference, Ottawa, Mario Agnes, director of "L'Osservatore Romano," Patricia Bustamante Marin, executive secretary of DECOS-CELAM and SERTAL-CELAM, Bogota, Colombia, Daniela Frank, director of the Catholic Media Council, Aachen, Germany, Norberto Gonzalez Gaitano, dean of the Department of Institutional Social Communications of the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross, Rome, Emilio Rossi, president of the Board of Directors of Vatican Television and president of the Italian Catholic Press Union, and Russell Shaw, Washington, U.S.A.

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